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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

submitted 30 days ago • 187 comments

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

submitted 36 days ago • 71 comments

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

submitted 36 days ago • 50 comments

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

submitted 43 days ago • 74 comments

starmer is probably going to go down in history as the PM who had a chance to reverse the drive towards the farage reich but stood by and did nothing. but i don't really think that's fair. we need to remember how much he's been pushing for that reich

submitted 42 days ago • 26 comments

They withdrew the whip and kicked Corbyn out of the party so they could give you a cabinet that’s slashing welfare, prepping the NHS for privatisation and demonising immigrants, and a PM whose ultimate grand strategy is playing bigot chicken with Nigel Farage. This cannot be stressed enough.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

3 months ago, I wrote this about centrist parties aping the far right, and how it's not just immoral, but suicidal. This is not secret knowledge. It's the most reliable effect in world politics. It's watching 40 guys getting killed by the same gorilla, one by one, and stepping up to take your turn.

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative. Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

🧵 The recent miscarriage of justice in the UK Supreme Court, where it created a class of people with fewer human rights than others, has led to two key developments. It has created an intersectional backlash against systemic transphobia in the political class, as well as embolden transphobes. [1]

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

submitted 46 days ago • 54 comments

put this on your page to let people know your account is NOT a safe space for Lib Dems

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

It's never a bad time to remind everyone:

submitted 389 days ago • 13 comments